Electrical connector part

US5658169A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Leopold KOSTAL GmbH & Co. KG · DE

Inventors

• Klaus Buhle · Schwerte, DE
• Wolfgang Mohs · Iserlohn, DE
• Wilfried Heringhaus · Herne, DE
• Peter Epe · Lennestadt, DE
• Georg Schroder · Leverkusen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 5, 1995
• Grant date: Aug 19, 1997
• Expiry date: Sep 5, 2015

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H01R13/4223
• WIPO field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

An electrical connector consisting principally of a housing of synthetic material with a plurality of receiving chambers provided therein for receiving an associated electrical connector contact element. In at least one outer housing wall of the housing is located one orifice per receiving chamber, with a locking arm disposed therein, which is integrally formed as a single piece on this outer wall of the housing. In order for it to be possible with a single operating step to release both the primary and the secondary locking and therefore to remove the electrical connector contact elements quickly and easily from their receiving chambers, a return slope is integrally formed on the free end region of each of the locking arms. In the housing at least one further access point is provided per receiving chamber and leads from the mouth region of the housing. This access point extends substantially parallel to the longitudinal direction of the receiving chamber so that a tool inserted into the housing by way of the other access point displaces the locking arm from its locking position into its release position.